Organizational Identities, Logics, and Behaviors: Exploring the Policy Influence of Dual Federal Designations in Hispanic-Serving Historically Black Colleges and Universities

• In Event: Social Science Analyses of Emerging Legal Dilemmas

Abstract

This study investigates the material consequences of Title V, as an enrollment-based funding model, which incentivizes HBCU leaders to shift their organizational identity, mission, and practices in ways that have the potential to influence its commitment to Black and Latinx campus communities. Preliminary findings suggest a dual designation may improve access for Latinx communities, without compromising the historic mission of HBCUs.

Examining three HS-HBCUs in Texas, through qualitative methodologies, we consider how a meso-level construct of Lao-Montes’Afro-Latinidades might enhance leaders’ capacity to honor the historic mission and institutional identity of HBCUs, and enhance inclusion at HS-HBCUs. We offer a substantial and timely contribution to practice-driven research on the social construction of legal pressures, organizational behaviors, and inclusion in higher education.

Authors

• Dwuana Bradley, University of Southern California
  Presenting Author

• Gina English Tillis, University of Memphis
  Presenting Author